316 HENRY INGERSOLL BOWDITCH. 



cian at the Boston City Hospital, 1868 to 1871 ; consulting physician 

 to the Massachusetts General, City, Carney, and New England hospi- 

 tals. He was Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Harvard Medical 

 School from 1859 to 1867. He was elected President of the American 

 Medical Association in 1876. In addition to his Fellowship in the 

 Academy, he was a member of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, of the American Public Health Association, of 

 the American Academy of Medicine, of the Paris Obstetrical Society, of 

 the Paris Society of Public Hygiene, of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, of the leading medical societies in Boston, and honorary mem- 

 ber of the Royal Italian Society of Hygiene, of the Association of 

 American Physicians, of the New York Academy of Medicine, of 

 the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and of the New York, Rhode 

 Island, and Connecticut State Medical Societies. 



When he was appointed admitting physician, negroes were not re- 

 ceived as patients in the hospital. He offered a test case of pneumo- 

 nia, resigned his position when his negro patient was not admitted, and 

 carried his point, his resignation not being accepted. He never was 

 one who " fears his fate too much." 



His loyalty to his profession, his unfailing fidelity to his duties as 

 hospital physician, his full and painstaking visits, thoroughly examin- 

 ing every organ as well as scrutinizing most minutely every symptom 

 in his patients, and his kindly, sympathetic, courteous devotion to them 

 personally, have been reflected in the professional lives and characters 

 of his pupils throughout the land. As Professor, he taught his students 

 to be honorable, honest, uncompromisingly truthful, courageous, care- 

 ful, thorough investigators, and, whatever they did, never to forfeit 

 their own self-respect. He insisted, too, that they should treat their 

 patients personally fully as much as their diseases, and to use hope, 

 faith, and enthusiasm as an important part of their materia medica. 

 This service they returned with a love and respect that is accorded to 

 few teachers. His colleagues, many of whom were younger men with 

 fewer demands upon them, admired the lavish expenditure of time 

 which he gave to others and to his hospital work. Few men of estab- 

 lished reputation would spend hours, as he often did, to see an inter- 

 esting case with a dispensary physician in the slums, or to help with 

 his advice. 



In 1846 he was the leading one of eight physicians* to found the 



* Henry I. Bowdkch, Charles E. Buckingham, George Derby, John D. 

 Fisher, Samuel Kneeland, Jr., Fitch E. Oliver, William H. Thayer, and John B. 

 Walker. 



